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Turning Smartphones Into Go-Anywhere Medical Devices

Aydogan Ozcan is an associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. His work focuses on lens-free computational microscopy, and he has developed a way to put microanalysis tools on a cellphone - enabling healthcare workers to accurately diagnose and treat patients outside of a traditional hospital setting. Ozcan discusses how telemedicine technologies like cellphone microscopy can help bring down healthcare costs.

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    00:00:10 my name is idj uh I'm an associate professor uh of electrical engineering at UCA and at California n assistants Institute one of our recent work U is uh uh on uh lensfree computational microscopy its impact is especially uh for tele medicine applications bringing microanal is tools to locations where there are not any hospitals so that the healthcare workers could have their cell

    00:00:38 phone work as microscopes to look at specimen to look at for instance blood cells to make a a more accurate diagnosis so through technologies that you can install on cell phones or attach to cell phones you can potentially increase the penetration of a central hospital to a larger area this type of a technology where where we installed microscopy on a cell phone is not only

    00:01:04 going to impact just the uh poor countries it's also going to help us in the United States and other developed countries by having our uh Health Care be much more cost efficient especially in the long run through these tele medicine Technologies without my NIH support this work would not have been where it is right now funding basic research is is very very important not

    00:01:28 only for the short term but for also the long term